Langenfelde station
- Hamburg Holsten Street - Pinneberg ( 2.6 km )
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The station Hamburg- Langenfelde is a breakpoint at 2.6 kilometer parallel to the railway line Hamburg- Altona- Kiel city rail track between Holsten Street and Pinneberg in Hamburg- Langenfelde. The station opened in 1962 has a central platform to the suburban tracks of the railway lines, parallel to this is a freight railway, which connects the train yard Langenfelde AKN with the main track of the AKN at Hamburg - Eidelstedt station. The access tunnel to the platform is also one of the two entrances to the "lens".
The station is served by the S21 and S3 of the Hamburg S-Bahn, whereby direct connections towards Pinneberg, Hamburg- Altona, Hamburg city center and the Stade result.
History
A first station in Langenfelde originated in 1884 with the construction of Altona- Kaltenkirchener railroad.
In 1911/12 the web between Altona and Quickborn was traced out on an embankment, before they went in the street level. After that accounted for the stop in Langenfelde.
The section of the S -Bahn to the Holsten Street station was opened on 22 February 1962. A new railway station was built Langenfelde. At the same time operating the route through the AKN was withdrawn far. Pending further extension of the S -Bahn direction Pinneberg 1965 Langenfelde remained the southern terminus of the AKN and transfer point between S -Bahn and AKN. The S-Bahn route over the station Hamburg- Eidelstedt to Hamburg Elbgaustraße station was put into operation on 26 September 1965.
Train accident in 1979
On Friday morning of January 26 1979, a train crash in which 22 people were injured occurred in Langenfelde S-Bahn station. A first train was standing on the station platform to the south and drove straight on. Behind him was a train series 472 moved up to the station, which had been given to the substitute signal free ride and now in the same block section was like driving in train. The driver had noticed the train before him, was able to slow down and prevent the already possible initial impact. He had left her for also occurred Funkstörung the cab in order to establish contact with the control center via the then still active inspectors. Behind his train, however, drove a third propelled towards Bergedorf S -Bahn Series 470 after an attempted emergency braking on the waiting outside the station second train.
A contributory cause of the accident was a failure of the interlocking block on Haferweg. At the same time apparently the young dispatcher guide was overwhelmed with the situation and had been falsely free ride. The drivers of the trains were not informed of the block fault. The accident coincided with the snow chaos of the century, winter 1978/79, as the Hamburg S -Bahn was because of the numerous disorders, including through snow and ice, in the criticism.